74% of alpharooms.com customers who answered the survey said that the recent troubles had put them off travelling to Egypt. 64% of respondents said they would consider the Red Sea resorts, including Sharm el Sheikh, as a holiday destination when the situation becomes stable again.
As the USA and Germany tell their citizens not to travel to any resort in Egypt, including the Red Sea resorts, alpharooms.com asked their customers if the recent unrest in the country had impacted on their view of the popular winter sun destination.
74% of alpharooms.com customers who answered the survey said that the recent troubles had put them off travelling to Egypt. 64% of respondents said they would consider the Red Sea resorts, including Sharm el Sheikh, as a holiday destination when the situation becomes stable again.
Jamie Shuker, managing director of alpharooms.com said: “We understand our customers’ anxieties when it comes to circumstances such as these. This survey is reassuring as it shows that all is not lost for tourism in Egypt and people will reconsider it as a holiday destination in the future.”
According to CNN, Russia and France are preparing contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from Egypt, as violent clashes between the military government and Islamists in the country continue. Russia’s Federal Aviation Agency has ordered airlines to prepare plans to airlift Russian tourists from Egypt, the Moscow Times reported. Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, said it was ready to begin evacuating passengers from the country as soon as it was instructed to do so. Late last week France also announced that it had a plan to evacuate its citizens under review.
Germany extended its advice against travel to the country to include the Red Sea beach resorts around Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh – areas that have been largely immune from the unrest of recent months and that foreign governments have tended to advise were safe.
U.S. and British travel advisories on Egypt remain basically unchanged. The U.S. State Department continues to urge its citizens to leave Egypt, if they can. Any remaining in the country should monitor local media for updates on the unrest, it says.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against travel to Egypt, except the Red Sea resorts. The FCO has for some time advised against travel to the lawless Sinai Peninsula, where the recent grenade attack on Egyptian soldiers took place, except for the resort areas.
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